Crossword for Mon, 26/Mar/2012

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Across
1: Seraglio

3: Practically any bird, e.g.

8: Loan sources, of a sort

10: Mental midget

11: Thing that conceals

12: Photo ___ (journalists' desires)

13: Playground game

14: Archipelago components

16: Down in the dumps

17: Circus performer's insurance?

18: Common gallinule

21: Part of CBS: Abbr.

22: Stick on a table

23: September honoree

25: Willow twig

27: Legal outs

28: Highway guides

29: Horse holders

Down
1: Great expectations

2: Fascination

3: Not complaining

4: Hailing from the Orient

5: Samara source

6: Mottled inlay material

7: Great seating for fights

9: Party for sheep shearers?

13: Dogged

15: Person catching some rays

19: Fortune tellers

20: Very ugly

24: Assays

26: Word before sheet or session





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